Crosstie



E. H. PHILLIPS.

CROSSTIE. armcA'nou FILED AUG-29, 1921.

Patentd Aug. 29, 1922.

gwue'ntoz IIIIIIII/IIIIIII l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD H. PHILLIPS, OF FORT MILL, SOUTH CAROLINA.

GROSSTIE.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that EDWARD H. PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Fort Mill, in the county of York and State of South Carolina, has invented new and useful Improvements in Crossties, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient construction of metal cross tie for railroads as a substitute for the wooden ties now in common use and having simplified means of attachment of the rails thereto for facilitating the building of roads and the substitution of metallic for the Wooden ties; and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment 1s shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tie embodying the invention. v Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same showing a rail secured in the seat provided for its reception.

Figure 3 is a plan view. of one end of the tie.

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

The tie is of channel iron form as indicated at 10 preferably withthe end portions thereof beyond the rail seats 11 beveled or reduced as indicated at 12, the cavity or hollow side of the channel being arranged uppermost and adapted when desired for the reception of ballast as indicated in Figure 2.

The side flanges of the tie are connected at each rail seat, or at intervals corresponding with the transverse spacing of the rails with an integral horizontal web 13 flush at its upper surface with the upper edges of the flanges or side walls of the channel and having an integral clip 14 at one end under out as indicated at 15 for engagement with the edge of the base of a rail 16 arranged on the seat as shown in Figure 2. Opposite to the fixed clip is a movable clip 17 held in place by bolts 18 or the equivalent thereof for engagement with the rail foot at the opposite side from the fixed clip, and in the standard or ordinary construction of tie it is preferable to arrange the stationary clip at each end of the tie at the corre onding side of the seat, as for example at t e outer end Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 29 1922 Application filed August 29, 1921.

Serial No. 496,432.

of the seat at one end and the inner end of the seat at the other end as shown in Figure openings are formed it is preferable to provide the side flanges in the planes of said openings with exterior reinforcing enlargements 21.

The purpose of the openings 20 is to prevent what is known as a center bound track, since, in this arrangement, the tie is in no sense supported on the ballast at the center. But the removal of the bottom. or web portion of the channel to provide this opening would weaken the tie at the center where there would be likelihood of its breaking, were not the side flanges reinforced by the enlargements as above said. It will be noted that the enlargements beside projecting laterally from the side flanges are both horizontally and vertically materially thicker than the stock of which the channel is formed and in this way successfully offset any bending strains in the side flanges of the tie and also offset strains tending to buckle the tie at the center opening, the enlargements being extended in both directions on the tie flanges to overlap the bottom portions of the tie adjacent the opening.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is A railway tie of channel iron having its side flanges connected by webs flush with the upper edges of said flanges to form spaced rail seats disposed adjacent opposite ends of the tie, the bottom of the tie between said rail seats being formed with an opening to permit the entrance of ballast and the flanges in the region of said opening being provided with laterally extending reinforcing enlargements both horizontally and vertically of greater thickness than the thickness of the side flanges and disposed adjacent the top edges of the latter and in overlapping relation with the bottom portions of the tie adjacent said opening.

Intestimony whereof he aflixes his signature.

EDWARD H. PHILLIPS. 

